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Private schools should be allowed to exist but should receive not one cent in tax-payer funds. Let those who wish to establish such an institution pay for it.

Public funds should fund free public education only. Private schools usually exist to push one exclusivist religious viewpoint and there is a strong argument for removing public funding from such exclusivist, ideologically based institutions.

Perhaps a better idea would be to force people who wish to attend private religious schools to pay a tax for doing so and then putting the funds into a general education campaign designed to teach tolerance and healthy scepticism to the general public.